Bush picks two Executive Branch defenders to the Supreme Court

ChristinaB · #1 10-03-2005, 08:31 AM

Harriet Miers will allow him to do whatever he wants with the detainees whenever a case comes to the Supreme Court. Roberts also worked in a conservative White House.

Bush is going to be sued over Iraq, Miers and Roberts will throw the cases out.

Bush is stacking the deck to cover his ass.

guller · #2 10-03-2005, 08:40 AM

The government is exempt from lawsuits. He can't be sued for decisions he makes in office that negatively affect a certain percentage of the population.

ChristinaB · #3 10-03-2005, 08:48 AM

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The government is exempt from lawsuits.

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Who do you think they are suing when they make habeus corpus challenges against illiegal detentions?

The government.

guller · #4 10-03-2005, 08:53 AM

Okay, let me rephrase that. Individuals in office can't be sued. GWB will not be sued over Iraq, because he can't be.

The suits you are referring to are against the policies directly and not aimed at individuals.

whiskeytown · #5 10-03-2005, 09:38 AM

Once again, a choice job goes to an insider crony with no experience - The woman has never sat one day on the bench as a judge, and now we're just gonna drop her right into the highest court in the land without a second's thought.

That's handy though...none of that messy background that might indicate what her political leanings are - she can lie to suit her needs when testifying before the Senate - that'll be handy...

as a Crony you can be damn sure nothing that Monkey boy likes will ever be voted against while she's there -

the [censored] idiot - at least this unqualified appointee won't be able to turn a natural disaster into a national clusterfuck the way Brownie handled Katrina - but I'm sure she can screw up the Constitution pretty bad...

RB

Matty · #6 10-03-2005, 10:16 AM

If you look around places like redstate.org, it doesn't look like his base is too happy with this either- most notably because she contributed money to Al Gore.

Personally, sure it's bullshit that he keeps putting his friends ahead of the American people... but the rumor is that Miers is on the Democrats' "no filibuster" list so I can't say I'm unhappy.

Remember Howard Dean's allegations that Bush told him (when they were both Governors) that he couldn't stand the hard right-wingers... calling them "nuts"? Well this would seem to lend more credibility to that...

I've got to call up some of my Republican friends and laugh at them now.

renodoc · #7 10-03-2005, 10:42 AM

I don't really like it, but probably for the same reasons the libs don't either. Perhaps there is a larger scheme in the lurk though, and she is being thrown out there to be dissed as an inexperienced and unqualfied jurist. Then the real deal gets nominated...

btw, "monkeyboy" is pretty juvenile.

Matty · #8 10-03-2005, 10:50 AM

Are you a conservative Republican who I can laugh at?

renodoc · #9 10-03-2005, 11:06 AM

You can laugh if you want to. I don't like to be pigeonholed as either, although I certainly would take offense at being described a "liberal democrat" (yuck)

Then again, if you were taking the time to laugh at "conservative Republicans"- haven't you had fodder enough long before this???

Matty · #10 10-03-2005, 11:14 AM

Sure but it's infinitely more enjoyable when it's made blatantly obvious that you've been decieved / betrayed.

You were promised a justice "in the mold of Scalia and Thomas".

And to top it off, she's 60 friggin years old!

I get happier by the minute. You've got to be wondering "what's the use in even having a 55 seat majority?"